BULLYACHE A surrealist pop-music pseudo-vaudevillian post-post experiment blurring the lines between authorship, music, dance, and performance. Interview by Joshua Lee McKain Photos by Fran Gomez de Villaboa
Art Direction: BULLYACHE & Fran Gomez de Villaboa
Movement Director: Lewis Walker
Photoassistant: Marta Puleo London-based Jacob Samuel and Tylor Deyn are two halves of a full ache. Together the duo represents BULLYACHE. In their most recent work, TOM, they compare access to public funding with the myth of Orpheus. Flashing between minimal ballads and rave somnambulism in a piece that casts Orpheus as milling about the job center. Waiting for their turn. Joshua Lee McKain: How's it in London right now? Jacob Samuel: Everything's going crazy... The whole world is imploding. JLM: You both firmly identify as working class. I think that's also something that I see a lot, coming more from the UK. There's more of a visible class barrier there. Why did you choose to include that in your bios? Tylor Deyn: I guess from what you said, there is this massive class barrier. I was really lucky and had a scholarship to a ballet school. I was put into situations where I was surrounded by rich, middle-class people. Everyone was talking and I didn't really understand what that meant. I wanted to blend in. Then when we would go out sometimes, someone would say, “My cousin's royalty.” We feel that the game people are playing is different. And that’s the thing that links us quite strongly together. Even though we're from different places, that linking factor is our experiences. We are trauma bonded. [...] Link in bio 🤡 @bullyache_ @tylor_my_real_name______ @jacobfsamuel @josmckain @gomezdevillaboa @lewiswalker_x @martapuleo #pwmagazine #pwmag #bullyache #FranGomezdeVilla #joshualeemckain